Grateful to be alive Quote by Neil Gaiman

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose,…

— Kelseyleigh Reber

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“She'd say amazing things sometimes. "Once you're alive," she'd say, "you cant ever be dead.”

— Tim O'Brien

“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Life, she remembered, had to be lived, even - and maybe particularly - in the middle of death”

— j.d. robb

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver

“I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep…

— Liz Moore

“If she were to die, it would be out here. Not that she wanted to die. She really didn’t. She just felt suddenly like…

— Jessica Jaster

“There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better…

— Sophocles

“If her death taught me anything, it’s this. Cherish the time you have. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Right now is all we are promised.”

— J.A. Saare